As far as I know, farbot is still a pretty good way to do that :)
You are right though, there has not been any activity for awhile.
These days I am busy with working on my master's degree and have not
had much need for farbot myself, so I have not been spending time
adding any new features. However, if you find any bugs please do post
about them here or use the issue tracker (
http://code.google.com/p/
farbot/issues/list), and I will fix the problem as soon as possible.
Requests for new features I will try to take care of as fast as I can,
as well.
Nick